When I build and run on Windows XP the HTML Help sample of wxWidgets 2.8.9 located in C:\wxMSW-2.8.9\samples\html\help\, the appearance of the resulting help window does not match the options stated for the wxHtmlHelpController constructor at http://www.**--****.com/ Specifically, although the code in C:\wxMSW-2.8.9\samples\html\help\help.cpp constructs its wxHtmlHelpController object "help" using help(wxHF_DEFAULT_STYLE | wxHF_OPEN_FILES) the appearance of the help window does not have the style described in the wxWidgets documentation for the option wxHF_ICONS_FOLDER, which is subsumed in wxHF_DEFAULT_STYLE. Namely, the top-level nodes "Test HELPFILE" and "Another book" in the help window should be indicated with a book icon, whereas the secondary node "Book 2" under "Another book" should have a folder icon; but, instead, *all* of the nodes have the book icon. Interestingly, using the exact same code on Linux with wxWidgets 2.8 produces the expected behavior: a folder icon for "Book 2". At first, then, I thought that the WinXP operating system was somehow overriding the wxWidgets application. This conjecture was bolstered by the documentation of the alternative option wxHF_ICONS_BOOK, which states that the behavior I'm observing on WinXP "is how Microsoft's HTML help viewer behaves." And, perhaps having Microsoft HTML Help Workshop installed didn't help matters. However, the wxWidgets application Audacity 1.2.6 is also installed on this computer, yet its help window shows folder icons for secondary nodes even though the Audacity source code (viz., src\Help.cpp) apparently does nothing substantially different than the wxWidgets sample. Can anyone explain to me why the wxWidgets sample doesn't show a folder icon for its secondary node--and, how to make it so? (I'm betting that the explanation will be pretty simple. :-) ) Jerome